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Mar 5th, 2015
With state budget hearings upon us, where does the hostage crisis that began with UC regents threatening to hike student tuition by as much as 28 percent absent piles of...
Nov 4th, 2014
When we hear about exploited workers, we often think of people working in other countries for pennies a day, in sweatshop conditions. Closer to home, we often think of private...
Aug 15th, 2014
When the University of California's largest union and its administrators settled a two year contract dispute this spring, each side pledged to work with the other in promoting...
Jan 31st, 2014
In Dwaine Duckett’s commentary “UC doesn’t deserve labor smear tactic” (Viewpoints, Jan. 28), he alleged that it was unreasonable for AFSCME-represented UC employees to...
Jan 23rd, 2014
If one were to summarize UC President Janet Napolitano’s first few months on the job in the form of a question, it would go something like this: Is there an inequity problem at...
Nov 19th, 2013
There are two parts to the ongoing dispute between the University of California and the system’s largest union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal...
Aug 8th, 2013
If you want to know what's going on at the University of California's taxpayer-subsidized hospitals, please do your own homework. You'll find growing questions about patient...
Jul 29th, 2013
While Americans don’t seem to agree on much these days, there has been a growing public consensus on the issue of reforming public employee pensions. Virtually no one thinks...
May 22nd, 2013
This week, UC administrators have pushed an estimated 13,000 UC medical center patient-care workers, members of AFSCME 3299, into a two-day strike. It’s important to be clear on...
